Simple Medical Device Provides Better Way to Diagnose Pneumonia

Call it lean design, these Georgia Tech students created a device that will save lives

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a new sampling device that could prevent thousands of people worldwide from dying of pneumonia each year.

Called PneumoniaCheck, the device created at Georgia Tech, is a solution to the problem of diagnosing pneumonia, which is a major initiative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Dr. David Ku and research team: David Ku, Georgia Tech Regents’ Professor of Mechanical Engineering, L.P. Huang Chair Professor for Engineering Entrepreneurship in the College of Management, and Professor of Surgery at Emory University, with former graduate students, Tamera Scholz, (center) M.S. ’10 Mechanical Engineering, and Taylor Bronikowski (right) M.B.A. '10.

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Simple Medical Device Provides Better Way to Diagnose Pneumonia

Call it lean design, these Georgia Tech students created a device that will save lives

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